Share <Embed>

Buy New

$16.99

FREE Shipping on orders over $25.00 shipped by Amazon or get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime

In Stock.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

Buy Used

$13.80

FREE Shipping on orders over $25.

Used: Good | Details

Sold by straightDevoted

Fulfilled by Amazon

Other Sellers on Amazon

Add to Cart

$17.04
+ $3.99 shipping

Sold by: SuperBookDeals--

Add to Cart

$21.04
+ Free Shipping

Sold by: Book Depository US

Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 2 images

Climategate: The Crutape Letters Paperback – January 14, 2010

by Steven Mosher (Author), Thomas W. Fuller (Author)

37 ratings

See all 7 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$11.99

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$16.99

$7.01

The Climategate scandal covered from beginning to end--from 'Hide the Decline' to the current day. Written by two authors who were on the scene--Steven Mosher and Tom Fuller--Climategate takes you behind that scene and shows what happened and why.For those who have heard that the emails were taken out of context--we provide that context and show it is worse when context is provided.For those who have heard that this is a tempest in a teacup--we show why it will swamp the conventional wisdom on climate change.And for those who have heard that this scandal is just 'boys being boys'--well, boy. It's as seamy as what happened on Wall Street.

Frequently bought together

Total price: $50.43

Buy the selected items together

This item:Climategate: The Crutape Letters by Steven Mosher Paperback $16.99
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
"A Disgrace to the Profession" by Mark Steyn (editor) Paperback $15.45
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
Hiding the Decline by A. W. Montford Paperback $17.99
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Brian Sussman

200

Hardcover
$40.08
David E. Robinson
Paperback
$12.95
A. W. Montford

36

Paperback
$17.99
Steven Mosher

14

Hardcover
$101.00
Gregory Wrightstone

793

Paperback
$12.99
Steven W. Mosher

47

Hardcover
$18.89

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Steven M Mosher, born in Grand Rapids Michigan, graduated Northwestern University and attended UCLA for graduate studies in literature. He later joined Northrop Aircraft where he worked as an threat analyst and director of analysis until transitioning to the commercial world in 1995 when he joined Creative Labs as a director of marketing and product development. Since 1995 he has specialized in the development of new consumer technologies such as 3D graphics, web cameras, Mp3 players and a variety of wireless devices. Since 2007 he has worked in the open source community and has been active leader in the effort to get open access to the data and code underlying climate science. Thomas Fuller was born in Denver Colorado and currently lives in San Francisco. Trained by the U.S. Navy in electronics and cryptography, he has been writing about technology ever since, usually market research reports with exciting titles like 'Project Global Market for Infusion Pumps 2009-2014.' This is a lot of fun by comparison.

Paperback: 186 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 14, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1450512437
ISBN-13: 978-1450512435
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.4 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Customer Reviews: 34 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,201,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3934 in Environmental Science (Books)

Would you like to tell us about a lower price?
If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?

Start reading Climategate: The CRUtape Letters on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Customer reviews

5 star		71%
4 star		16%
3 star		10%
2 star 0% (0%)		0%
1 star		3%

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Canman

The Narrative Behind Climategate

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2017

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

What is often lost in the arguments over Climategate, is that there was an actual narrative involved. Who ever leaked or hacked the emails did so because of outrage over the behavior of climate scientists in a drama that was being played out in the climate blogosphere. There were two main story lines. One involved skeptics trying to get access temperature data, mostly for studying the Urban Heat Island effect. The other had to do with getting a couple of really bad papers into the IPCC Forth Assessment Report, in order to counter criticism of the appallingly bad, but influential, hockey stick graph. If they haven't done so already, readers should be sure to read the post at the blog, Bishop Hill, entitled, Caspar and the Jesus Paper (1). For a shorter, snarky post on just how bad the "science" can get, read the post, Caspar Ammann, Texas Sharpshooter(2), at the blog, Climate Audit.

The authors are both lukewarmists and they include a very good descriptive summary of the various factions in the climate debate, which hasn't changed much since this book was written. Notes refer to links in the first comment.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Anthony N. Jeric

If you want to understand in detail the context and implications of the climategate e-mails this is for you

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2014

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

The authors are clearly climate war insiders whose beliefs lie somewhere between the alarmists and the deniers. They are intimately familiar with the CO2 warming issues from the perspective of the under reported cyber war carried out by the horde of volunteer engineering and data analyst skeptics against the Climate Science Establishment (CSE). It covers the fight for open sourcing of the raw data, the adjusted data and the adjustment methodologies regardless of who the CSE considers to be qualified to access and evaluate such data. History is replete with past science establishment efforts to maintain authority and control over a subject by keeping out those they consider to be interlocutors and heretics. After reading this, one will realize that climate science is no different. Those familiar with global warming issues but not Climategate e-mails will be rewarded with another layer of understanding. A bonus is a clear explanation of the role that the tree series truncation (the infamous "trick" frequently confused with the current lack of warming) played in the creation of the hockey stick graphs and the dilemma it posed to the CSE. CSE insider e-mails are put into context with many other communications especially the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) actions. These were launched to pry loose the CSE's originating data and adjustment methods. This was crucial because that information is the foundation for the CSE's conclusion that the warming of the modern period is unprecedented. Other E-mails have to do with CSE efforts to 1) suppress publication of dissenting papers, 2) take control of the peer review process 3) ensure only friendly papers and comments are considered by the IPCC, 4) circumvent the IPCC expert reviewer process when considered deleterious to the CSE position and 5) getting those not conforming to CSE wishes fired or isolated. The authors suggest that resistance to information release comes from fear of public exposure to sloppy CSE book keeping. CSE work may not be reproducible, which violates a foundational science principle i.e. repeatability. That then calls into question the verifiability and hence trustworthiness of the CSE's global warming pronouncements.

Those who presume that all scientists religiously adhere to some higher standard of integrity than mere mortals are in for a rude awakening. Consider: “Science as something already in existence, already completed, is the most objective, most impersonal thing that we humans know. Science as something coming into being, as a goal, however, is just as subjectively, psychologically conditioned, as all other human endeavors.”
—Albert Einstein , as quoted in A. Douglas Stone’s Einstein and the Quantum

4 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Mitsky

ClimateGate

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2016

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

Excellent very truthful analysis.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Tom Gray

Vital Issue - Excellent Summary

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2016

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

An excellent overview of the Climategate emails. Climate change is a vital issue and the science surrounding must be of the highest quality.

Helpful

Comment

Amazon Customer

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2016

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Product delivered on time and was exactly as advertised.

Helpful

Comment

Emc2

A detailed and balanced analysis of the CRU e-mails

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2010

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

Though the book was put together in just 30 days the authors delivered a truly forensic analysis of the CRU e-mails. A selection of the e-mails is presented in chronological order with proper context. Actually, approaching the end of the book they go into so much detail that if you are not able to bear with them, I recommend you to jump to Chapter 8, the jewel of the book.

Despite the title, be aware that this book does NOT belong to the "GW is a hoax" category, and the authors explicitly state that this fiasco does not invalid in any way the science, global warming is real but the alarmist view has no solid ground. They managed to demonstrate with evidence and beyond any doubt not only the reprehensible behavior of key climate scientists involved in the scandal ("The Team"), but they make a very good case of all the problems caused by The Team lack of transparency and rejection of healthy skepticism, and as they conclude, this is inevitable when the scientific endeavor is mixed with personal interests and a political agenda. The minimum decent thing that the climate science community should do is to rebuilt the Hockey Stick in an open and independent way that guarantees that anyone interested can verified the results.

Definitely recommended for those with a genuine interest in this controversy and concerned with the scientific bias with which this important issue is being promoted to the public. A good reading also for the moderates in the warming side.

Two recommended complementary readings: Climate of Uncertainty for a balanced primer and an honest discussion of this debate. Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity is recommended for those more familiar with the controversy. Hulme's book is a deep analysis of climate change from the lenses of history, sociology and economics written by someone with firsthand experience who is a renowned climate scientist.

PS: Do not miss the Hartwell Paper published in May 2010 (available for free in pdf format in the web, just google). In this publication 14 academics (including Mike Holme, former Director of the research center involved in Climategate) and energy advocates talk very openly about the uncertainties and limitations of climate science and modelling, and argued that the Kyoto Protocol has failed to produce any discernable real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases in fifteen years, and therefore, after the Copenhagen fiasco, Kyoto has crashed, and proposed a radically different policy approach. In this paper Mosher's book is a reference for the events of Climategate.

7 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Top international reviews

Mr. S. Crook

An excellent analysis of the CRU Emails

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2010

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

I confess; I'm a sceptic/lukewarmer, and if you're a regular at real climate, you may find some of what is in this book rather difficult to read, but I suggest you read it. It's a chronological analysis of the hacked/leaked CRU emails, linking them with important events in climate science over the last decade and more. You won't come away a sceptic, but it might make you a little less inclined just to accept the 'consensus'. It might also make you wonder what Muir Russel and Oxborough were actually looking at in their enquiries.

For the most part it's a straightforward analysis of the emails, with no pronouncements on AGW or climate change in general. If you've read about 'hiding the decline', and the 'nature trick', this book will explain the context in which they were used. It shows pretty clearly how some scientists suffered a loss of perspective as they let activism cloud their judgement, and then tried to counter what they perceived as attacks on their professionalism and reputations with half lies, delay and obfuscation. It also shows relations between CRU and the rest of the world were cordial until the M&M2003 Paper was published after which there was a decline that couldn't be hidden :-)

There's not much to criticise apart from one or two passages where I think the authors infer too much into the motives/feelings of Jones, Briffa et el. Some of the diagrams could have been in colour, but I guess cost is an issue.

There is a significant section on the reliability of the ground station record (particularly in the US) and how this can impact estimates of UHI effects and therefore on the instrumental record of global temperature rise.

Consider also The Hockey Stick Illusion;Climategate and the Corruption of Science (Independent Minds) and The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth About Global Warming. The latter is important because it comes from an author associated with the AGW camp.

4 people found this helpful

Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again